1. healthy decentralized services often have <1% of users who do "want to run a server," and the whole thing works as a result
2. immutability / inability to change quickly is good for protocols
3. crypto community does need to decide whether it cares about money or decentralization
Took a while getting to the good part of 1. Should have skipped "'no one wants to run a server' is factually incorrect!"
I loved the Moxie piece but it was strange bc Moxie is a legendary cryptopunk who presumably believes decentralization is good (though hard to attain/maintain)... right? Moxie made excellent points but left me wondering what he actually thinks, or thinks should happen.
I also liked the pushback here about email being an example of failed decentralization, because Gmail is big or something? Email seems like the last major decentralized communication protocol still standing, despite incredible centralization/"balkanization" of the messaging space.
1. healthy decentralized services often have <1% of users who do "want to run a server," and the whole thing works as a result 2. immutability / inability to change quickly is good for protocols 3. crypto community does need to decide whether it cares about money or decentralization
Took a while getting to the good part of 1. Should have skipped "'no one wants to run a server' is factually incorrect!"
I loved the Moxie piece but it was strange bc Moxie is a legendary cryptopunk who presumably believes decentralization is good (though hard to attain/maintain)... right? Moxie made excellent points but left me wondering what he actually thinks, or thinks should happen.
I also liked the pushback here about email being an example of failed decentralization, because Gmail is big or something? Email seems like the last major decentralized communication protocol still standing, despite incredible centralization/"balkanization" of the messaging space.